Written entirely in Sinhala, under the title ඇය ගැන කියන කතා — "stories told about her". There is no English text in this book, so it will suit readers who read Sinhala comfortably, or those building a Sinhala-language collection. Buyers outside Sri Lanka should know that before ordering.
Siripala Maduwage's subject is women in folklore. The National Library of Sri Lanka catalogues the book under the headings "Women" and "Women — Folklore", which places it with the body of Sinhala writing that looks at the figures, tales and traditional lore surrounding women rather than at documented social history. The title itself sets the frame: what is said about her, in the stories that have been passed along.
Folklore has been a steady thread in Sinhala non-fiction publishing, and books of this kind generally draw on material that circulated orally long before it was written down — village tales, traditional narratives, the stock figures and sayings that carry a culture's assumptions about women. Readers with an interest in Sri Lankan oral tradition, in gender as it appears in traditional narrative, or in Sinhala folklore studies more broadly are the natural audience here.
The publisher is S. Godage, of Colombo, an established Sri Lankan house publishing in Sinhala and in English across fiction, scholarship, folklore and general non-fiction.
For readers abroad — academics, diaspora households keeping a Sinhala shelf, or anyone following Sri Lankan folklore scholarship — this is the kind of locally published title that rarely surfaces outside the island.
- Author: Siripala Maduwage
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 160
- ISBN: 9789553095169
Browse the rest of our book collection.
